The Learned Owl Book Shop, Mid-June 2016

Kate's Corner

Happy Festival Days! We are right at the beginning of what is always a fun weekend here in Hudson. Today starts the 69th annual Home and Garden Show put on by the Hudson Garden Club. Proceeds from the Tour fund the Garden Club's annual scholarships, grants, school programs, mentoring workshops, tree planting in Hudson, and community gardening projects. On Friday night, Hudson League for Service will host their 70th Ice Cream Social. Proceeds from this event go to provide grants and scholarships to various community organizations. To top it off, Leadership Hudson's annual summer movie program, Screen on the Green, kicks off at sunset as the ice cream social wraps up with a showing of Minions. Please try to head out to one or all of these events. You will be supporting a number of great causes and having a blast while you do it!

In other news, Main Street construction is due to start at the end of June and scheduled to continue through the summer, fall, and into next spring. We will do our best to keep you updated as it progresses.

As always, thank you for your support, and happy reading!

- Kate

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Events

Sat., June 18, 10 AM-noon (at The Owl)

Local author Paul Gaston returns with his book Ohio's Craft Beers: Discovering the Variety, Enjoying the Quality, Relishing the Experience. A perfect choice for Father's Day!

Mon., June 20, 7 PM

(at the Hudson Library)

Jim Obergefell with Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality. WKSU's Kabir Bhatia will moderate the discussion. Please register online, or call 330-653-6658.

Thurs., June 23, 7 PM

(at the Hudson Library)

Renowned journalist, author and Hudson native Ian Frazier will talk about his new book, Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces. Please register online or call (330) 653-6658 x1010.

Sat., June 25, 10 AM (Hudson Farmers Market)

Author and chef Carla Snyder, whose newest book is Sweet & Tart: 70 Irresistible Recipes with Citrus, will visit the Hudson Farmers Market for a cooking demonstration and book signing.

Sat., June 25, 1-3 PM

(at The Owl)

Tom Jones, Cleveland born and a WRA alumnus, with his memoir The Lights in the House: Reflections on a Life Curiously Lived.

Sat., June 25, 1-3 PM

(at The Owl)

Jennifer Maschari with The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price, a fantastical tale of love, loss and math for ages 8-12.

Sun., June 26, 2 PM

(at The Owl)

Our History Book Club welcomes guest author Jerry Prout (Coxey's Crusade for Jobs) as we discuss Social Reformers.

Thurs., June 30, 6:45 PM (location TBA)

Our Book Club in a Bar discusses The Last Detective. Hope you can join us!

Quick Links

New mysteries

which all seem to take place in Europe

Murder on the Quai by Cara Black

[Soho Crime, $27.95]

November 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris's preeminent medical school. She lives in a 17th-century apartment that overlooks the Seine with her father, who runs the family detective agency.

But the week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimee's life as she knows it. First, someone has sabotaged her lab work, putting her at risk of failing out of the program. Then, she finds out her aristo boyfriend is getting engaged to another woman. And finally, Aimee's father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aimee to help out at the detective agency while he's gone - as if she doesn't already have enough to do. But the case Aimee finds herself investigating, a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War II, has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after all; maybe it's time to think harder about the family business.

Marked for Life by Emelie Schepp

[Mira Books, $26.99]

Bestselling author Emelie Schepp introduces us to the enigmatic, unforgettable Jana Berzelius in this first novel of a chilling trilogy. When a high-ranking head of the migration board is found shot to death in his living room, there is no shortage of suspects. But no one expects to find the mysterious child-sized handprint in the childless home. A few days later, the body of a preteen boy is discovered, and with him, the murder weapon that killed him and the original victim. To protect her own hidden past, public prosecutor Jana Berzelius must find the suspect behind these murders before the police do.

The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

[Knopf Publishing Group, $29.95]

It begins in a Stockholm city park where the abused body of a young boy is discovered. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving the murder of an immigrant child. But with the discovery of the mutilated corpses of two more children, it becomes clear that a serial killer is at large.

Superintendent Kihlberg turns to therapist Sofia Zetterlund for her expertise in the psychopathology of those who kill, and the lives of the two women become quickly intertwined professionally and personally. As they draw closer to each other and to the truth about the killings, what surfaces is the undeniable fact that these murders are only the most obvious evidence of an insidious evil woven deep into Swedish society.

The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

[Bantam, $28.00; available June 21]

Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper doesn't know is that Nick Fox has been secretly working for the FBI. It isn't long before Nick's covert partner, Special Agent Kate O'Hare, is in hot pursuit of the crook who stole her con man. The trail leads to Belgium, France, and Italy, and pits Nick and Kate against their deadliest adversary yet: Dragan Kovic, an ex-Serbian military officer. He's plotting a crime that will net him billions... and cost thousands of American lives.

Nick and Kate have to mount the most daring, risky, and audacious con they've ever attempted in order to save a major U.S. city from a catastrophe of epic proportions.

New in paperback

We especially recommend:
Second Life by S. J. Watson

[Harper Paperbacks, $15.99]

Linda says: I put S. J. Watson in the top 5 of my favorite author list after reading Before I Go to Sleep, and Second Life is just as gripping. When Julia's sister Kate is murdered, she sets out to find out why - a journey that leads her down a very dark and dangerous path. Drawn into the darkest recesses of her desires, getting involved with a man she has met online, she feels her life careening out of control. Her search for answers puts her marriage, her family and her life in jeopardy. This taut and thrilling nail-biter will keep you engrossed until the stupefying resolution.

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